Travel Bloggers I met recently

During my last 2 trips- one to Thailand and one to
Jaisalmer, Rajastan, I got an opportunity to meet many like minded travel
bloggers. In this post, I am writing a few lines introducing them, so that you
can begin following their stories, if you’re not doing so already. This group of
enthusiastic and energetic people involved working mothers, young women who
often travel solo world-wide, people who have full time jobs but still manage to
be one of India’s top travel bloggers and so on. Each of them are unique in
their own way and have lots of experience and stories to share. Being able to
interact with them has helped me gain lots of insights and has increased my
respect towards them. Now I will be reading their blogs with even more eagerness
than earlier. If you’ve enjoyed reading contents at my blog enidhi.net, it
should definitely help you to know these people better and follow their
blogs.

Apart from those profiled here, we also met many
journalists, writers, travel agents and PR people. But since they don’t have an
independent outlet (like a blog) of their own to interact with end readers I am
not writing about them. [It won’t help either them or my readers
much]

Nisha Jha: Nisha lives in Mumbai, was identified as
Yahoo Fab and Fearless woman [Details] and has lots of travel experiences to share-
she was in Israel just before the war, had been repeatedly invited by multiple
tourism boards all over the world. Like many others, she was also working earlier and at some point decided to quit and pursue travel and volunteering full time. More about Nisha can be read in her own words here. Despite
a small wrist injury, she was as active as anyone else in the two trips we had
together. She has explicitly stated that buying a
GoPro is her next objective and I wish her good luck!

Sankara Subramanian: I’d first met Sankara during the
2010 Tata Nano Superdrive. Sankara was live blogging the orange route, while I
was covering the green route. Since then, we had done a trip to Valparai and
briefly met once early this year in Dandeli, before meeting again in Jaisalmer last week.
Last year Sankara spent over 300 days traveling all around South East Asia and
this year he has already been to half dozen countries and traveling more. Due to
his intense and extreme travel, he has witnessed events and happenings most of
us won’t even believe possible. Sankara has great deal of knowledge on birds,
photography, budget travel and motorcycling. He has left his high paying job to
start a travel consulting company, called BeOnTheRoad consulting, based in
Bangalore.

Rutavi Mehta: Rutavi Mehta runs Photokatha.in and works
with several tourism boards to help devise strategies to draw more tourists.
She was one of the organizers behind recently held Kerala Blog Express.

She is based in Mumbai and she did give lots of tips on
GoPro during our Thailand trip. You may contact her for planning and execution of any travel related campaigns/ideas.

Ankita Sinha: Anki on the move, as she is better known,
manages to be on the move all the time. She loves adventures- think of an
adventure and she can guide you where to try that. Ankita is based in Bangalore
and takes up marketing work for few agencies, when she is not on the move that
is. She has also left her corporate job to enjoy what she likes best- travel
& adventure. Ankita was featured in Fox Traveler, Deccan Chronicle etc and has a few reputed travel awards to her credit.

Ankita's blog also contains 115+ comprehensive travel videos that she has made from her experience, covering both international and domestic. [her videos can be seen here]. Ankita has also done Pan India traveler meets and interviews of travelers and adventurous people.

Siddhartha Joshi: Office goer like me, but his work often takes him to villages and remote places as he works in the field of medical equipment design. He blogs at the wanderer. He is a good entertainer and takes photographs with unique perspectives rest of us might not even have thought of.

Mridula Dwivedi: She needs no introduction and is
identified as India’s top travel blogger by multiple agencies that issued
rankings. She is a working mother, but that doesn’t deter her a bit. Before we
are done going through her updates on last trip, she is already on a flight for
her next destination. We had first met in 2007 during a club Mahindra travel
bloggers meet and since then, we couldn’t meet again. As fate has it, we met in
Bangkok last month during the mega tourism event organized by Thailand
Tourism.

Anuradha Sankar: Working mother, Bookworm, Taveler and TamBram, Anu has
lots of stories to tell. She identified me in the airport and meeting her was a pleasant surprise. Do check here bloghttp://anushankarn.blogspot.in/

Anuradha Goyal: Anuradha Goyal has stayed in several
cities & states across India and is currently based in Goa. Her recent work,
“The Mouse Charmers” profiles online enterprises that have pioneered online
revolution in India. She offers consultancy services to corporate houses on wide range
of topics. My review of her book will be live in a few days.

Supriya Sehgal: Supriya has also left her secure job to
make a living out of writing. She’s been successful in that for over 5 years
now and has written a lot for Lonely Planet and other publications. I couldn’t
interact with her much, but do check her website.

Bijoy Venugopal: Once an IT professional, but now a travel writer, Bijoy gets to have the best of both worlds- good paying job and an opportunity to travel all the time. Do check his profile here Ruchika Vyas: Ruchika is an editor with TheLabel.in, a lifestyle portal. Ruchika also enjoys chocolate making, travel, photography and regularly contributes for leading papers and magazines, including Femina, Outlook traveler and Mumbai Mirror. She blogs at http://www.travellerstories.com/. We had met once earlier during Club Mahindra Binsar trip and it was nice to meet her after close to 8 years!

Sumer Singh Rathore: A special mention goes to Sumer
Singh Rathore, who operates from a village in Jaisalmer- he follows most of
India’s travel bloggers and can recognize them by face. From his remote village
and using his 2G internet connection, he engages with lots of interesting
people. Sumer also runs a blog of his own. I can recommend him any day to for a
social media job in travel industry. Should you need any local help in and
around Rajastan, you could probably buzz him.

I have only linked the blogs here, from the blog you should be able to find respective twitter handles and facebook pages of these bloggers. Hope I've not missed any other bloggers from the two trips- if so it is purely accidental. Pls drop me a note.

I look forward traveling with them again. Given below is
a group photo clicked in Jaisalmer.

I must say the day I met in Thailand I was intrigued to explore Go pro videos and you soft attitude is what I can talk about..Loved the connection with you and I must you are fast at posting photo and blogs.Way to go :)